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Crucibles : The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclea
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- Publication Name
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- ISBN
- 9780486233420
- Book Title
- Crucibles : the Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1976
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Science
- Topic
- History, Physics / Atomic & Molecular, Science & Technology, Chemistry / General
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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This book is a classic in the field of popular science. Standard reading since the 1930s, it is one of the few historeis of chemistry to concentrate on the lives of the great chemists. Through these dramatic and human stories, it gives an authoritative and entertaining account of the great discoveries and advances in this scientific field. After many printings in three previous editions, this book has been newly revised by the author for this fourth edition. Beginning with Trevisan and his lifelong search for the "philosopher's stone," the author narrates the lives and discoveries of such towering figures as Paracelsus and his chemical treatment of disease; Priestley looking for phlogiston and finding oxygen and carbon dioxide, Lavoisier creating a new language of chemistry; Dalton and his Atomic Theory; Avogadro and the idea of molecules, Mendeleeff arranging the table of elements under his Periodic Law; the Curies isolating radium; Thomson discovering the electron; Moseley and his Law of Atomic Numbers; Lawrence and the construction of the cyclotron; and more. Probably the most dramatic chapter in the book, the account of the development of nuclear fission, ends the story of chemistry at its most monumental achievement. A final chapter discusses some of the consequences of nuclear fission, the discovery of nuclear fusion, and the recent work with subatomic particles. Bernard Jaffe is the author of many other science books and several science textbooks. Upon the original publication of this book, Mr. Jaffe received the Francis Bacon Award for the Humanizing of Knowledge. The American Chemical Society's History of Chemistry Division honored him in 1973 with its Dexter Award for "distinguished achievement in the history of chemistry."
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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486233421
ISBN-13
9780486233420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
530085
Product Key Features
Book Title
Crucibles : the Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History, Physics / Atomic & Molecular, Science & Technology, Chemistry / General
Publication Year
1976
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qd21.J3 19
Edition Description
Reprint,New Edition
Edition Number
4
Table of Content
I. BERNARD TREVISAN II. THEOPHRASTUS PARACELUS III. JOHN JOACHIM BECHER IV. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY V. HENRY CAVENDISH VI. ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER VII. JOHN DALTON VIII. JOHN JACOB BERZELIUS IX. AMEDEO AVOGADRO X. FRIEDRICH WOEHLER XI. DMITRI IVANOVITCH MENDELÉEFF XII. SVANTE ARRHENIUS XIII. MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE XIV. JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON AND ERNEST RUTHERFORD
Copyright Date
1976
Lccn
75-038070
Dewey Decimal
540.9
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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